Mr F�licien Kabuga

The man most wanted by ICTR will soon have a legal representative appointed for him in Oslo, Norway. The lawyer who has been identified is conversant with many languages, including French. Discussions with the lawyer has been on-going for the last 14 days, now on the final�stages, and a deal on how to move forward is expected to be announced�within the next 14 days or so.�

Information available to API indicate that the Norwegian lawyer is ready to make contact with the Government of Rwanda in an effort to establish a road map for Mr Kabuga’s surrender on agreeable terms as earlier stated in our articles.�Mr Kabuga, once he gets a lawyer appointed to take care of his interests, will make the next move on his wish to hand himself in, but conditionally.

Some international media has reported earlier that the government of Rwanda may not wish to engage in talks with Kabuga. Such a step by the government will not make things easy but will only encourage Kabuga to remain in hiding for sometime while while preparing himself to�register as an asylum seeker in a country of his choosing.

If he chooses to seek asylum in Norway, his case will have to be dealt just like it is done with all other applicants and any move by the Rwandan government or ICTR to have him deported will take years being dealt with by the Norwegian court system, a system that may even overrule deportation even if it has to do with genocide because the system guarantees the rights of every individual at all levels, no matter the historical background of the person in question.

By Korir, Chief Editor, Africa Press International – API africanpress@getmail.no

Story by FRED MUKINDA and SAMWEL KUMBA

Police in Nairobi have arrested a man in the hunt for Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, one of the world most wanted men.

Officers attached to the Diplomatic Police Unit picked him up at a residence in the city�s southern outskirts on Friday evening, police said. Mr Kabuga, wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been on the run for 14 years, since the 100-day slaughter in which 800,000 of his countrymen were killed.

Undercover police officers tracked the man to the neighbourhood and arrested him at the house believed to be one of his properties.

At the time of arrest, the Sunday Nation learnt, the fugitive was in the company of a woman believed to be his wife. He was taken to the Diplomatic police headquarters in Gigiri and held for several hours and later transferred to Special Crime Prevention Unit (SCPU) headquarters in Milimani.

Preliminary investigations, including interviewing the man believed to be Mr Kabuga, was conducted by the officer in charge of Diplomatic police Allan Sangoro.

Asst Commissioner Sangoro� later briefed his seniors at police headquarters after which it was decided that detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) be instructed to pursue the investigation.

Officers from the elite SCPU headed by Mr Richard Katola are also involved in the investigation. Besides undergoing interrogation, Mr Kabuga had his fingerprints and photograph taken.

Later in the day police officers contacted NTV and collected information that had been gathered months ago by their� investigative crew on a man informants had suspected was Mr Kabuga.

The information contained in a video clip showing his movements around Nairobi was also given to the investigating team.

Officers close to the investigation who viewed the clip told the Sunday Nation, that the man in the video was the one in custody.

Deputy police spokesman Charles Wahong�o said they were holding a �very important person in custody being investigated by CID officers for the purpose of establishing his identity.� He added: �We don�t want to rely on personal appearances in revealing his identity until we have conclusive results.�

Mr Wahong�o said police arrested him after he had been identified as a man who had appeared in a police notice as a wanted man. He did not give details.

Police commissioner Maj General Hussein Ali was said to be out of the country.

However, Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula initially told Sunday Nation that he had already been briefed about the arrest, but he was to cross-check and verify information already gathered before issuing any official statement.

And moments later he made the statement: �According to the brief I have received it was a case of mistaken identity.�

The minister said that preliminary investigations indicated that the man arrested was not Mr Kabuga and that he was a Kenyan.

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API has all along stated that the Rwandese Felicien Kabuga has been in Norway and many decided to doubt. The police in Kenya arrested a man in Nairobi the other day, in desparation to satisfy the ICTR that they are looking for the man in Kenya and yet he is not there at the moment.�

Police confirmed the man they arrested is not Felicien Kabuga (above)

Kenyan police have confirmed they got the wrong man after arresting an individual on suspicion of being a top Rwandan genocide criminal.�

They had carried out DNA tests on the man, who was arrested on Friday in one of Nairobi’s plush suburbs in the belief he could be Felicien Kabuga.

The Rwandan businessman is accused by the International Criminal Court of being a key financier of the genocide.

Some 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days in the 1994 massacre.

Sightings

BBC East Africa correspondent Karen Allen says the Kenyan authorities are under intense pressure over Mr Kabuga’s whereabouts.

In the past, the Kenyan authorities have been accused of harbouring alleged war criminals and have been threatened with action from the UN Security Council.

Last month a Kenyan court froze the assets of Mr Kabuga, who has a $5m (�2.4m) bounty on his head.

He has a number of business interests in the Kenyan capital, where he has been sighted several times with his bodyguards.

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�slaug Haga who refused to resign as Oil minister in Norway has now been frog-matched by the Prime minister who has directed that she goes on compulsary sick leave. Haga has gone from blunder to blunder while serving as the Norwegian Minister and every time she is confronted by the media on her responsibility to uphold the law, she tries to explain everything away and continues to run the ministry.

Yesterday, API in an article demanded that the Prime Minister sack her as he did to the first black minister in Norway, Manuella who was the minister for Children and family affairs.

Now that the Prime Minister has frog-matched her to take sick leave, it remains to be seen if she will stage-manage a come-back.

She loves being a cabinet minister and that may make her fight back but the outcry in the country is loud enough to lock her out so that she puts more time to her family and children in particular instead of coming back and ending up in a new controversy.

Related story:

Blunder after blunder but reluctant to resign due to too much love for her cabinet post: Pressure grows on embattled cabinet minister�Haga

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Central Kenya MP’s resist plans to install Prime Minister as Kikuyu elder

Written By: Graham Kirwa���,�Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008

Written By:Milton Nyakundi�

Kenya’s soccer team Harambee stars on Saturday made a giant leap towards qualification for the 2010 world cup and Africa cup of nations after a 2-0 triumph over Zimbabwe in a group 2 match played at the Nyayo national stadium.

Macdonald Mariga opened the scoring for the Stars with a thunderbolt shot in the first half.

Once again the stadium was filled to capacity with over 40,000 fans led by Prime minister Raila Odinga and sports minister Prof. Helen Sambili.

France-based striker Dennis Oliech scored the winner for the stars in the dying minutes of the match sending the home crowd into frenzy.

The victory was however marked by a major setback as midfielder Macdonald Mariga and keeper Arnold Origi sustained injuries minutes before the final whistle.

The Kenyan team will be without sensational midfielder Patrick Oboya, in their next match for a 2^nd yellow card against Zimbabwe.

Kenya now leads group 2 of the qualifying campaign with 6 points, 2 ahead of Zimbabwe in second place.

In the other game in the group, 2008 Nations Cup quarter finalists Guinea got their first win of the campaign.

They beat Namibia in Windhoek by two goals to one.

Ismael Bangoura and Pascal Feindouno got their goals.

But they still lie third in the group behind Zimbabwe on goal difference.

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The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) comprising seven countries in East Africa have urged Benin, Ghana and Nigeria to deploy their troops to troubled Somalia without delay.

The call was made at the on going IGAD summit in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, which is discussing regional security and development issues.

IGAD chairperson and president of Kenya Mwai kibaki, who will hand over his chairmanship Saturday, said that these countries pledged to send their troops last year but were unable to do so as scheduled.

Kibaki told the heads of state that the deployment of more troops from these countries will help to stabilize Somalia, which recently saw some light at the end of the tunnel by signing a peace agreement last week in Djibouti.

�The number of troops under the African Union in Somalia (AMSOM) is very small compared to what is required,� Kibaki said.

Benin, Ghana and Nigeria are expected to deploy some three battalions (around 2,400 troops) under AMISOM.

The AU still continues to appeal to countries to contribute troops to its mission in Somalia.

Currently, around 2,600 Ugandan and Burundi troops are in Somalia helping the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia in stabilizing the country, which remains without a central government for the past 17 years.

The recently signed peace agreement between the Somali parties has brought hope to bringing peace and stability in Somalia, which is still waiting for the deployment of 8,000 peace keeping forces under the AMSOM.

The Somalia peace situation is among the top agendas at the on-going closed session in Addis Ababa.

IGAD, established in 1986, presently has six member states, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya Djibouti, Sudan and Uganda.

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Chadian rebels say their arrival in the capital N�djamena is “imminent” as they are nearer following a “farther march inside the national territory,” the spokesperson of the rebels Doctor Ali Gadaya told APA, adding that the units crossed on Friday the towns of Goz Beida and Am Timan, at 600km south and south-east of the capital.

The same source said the rebels entered Adde and Am Djirema at the Chad – Sudan border.

On Thursday, the military aircraft had tried to stop their progress by shelling their positions, APA learned from military sources.

“We shot down two MI-24 helicopters. The first fell in Tombrouk. The second landed on the Arkou Mountain, at the north-eastern entry of Abeche,” Ali Gadaya said.

The Chadian authorities said these were indoctrination statements. They spoke of an emergency landing of a helicopter on the mountains surrounding Abeche due to “engine problems during a test flight.”

In a release published Wednesday, the government acknowledged the incursion of the rebels into Adde and Am Djirema, but said it had taken “all the necessary steps.”

On 2 June, the French general commanding the European forces deployed in Chad (EUFOR) Jean-Philippe Ganascia had said that the rebels who had attacked the capital, in February, to overthrow President Idriss Deby Itno “were not able” to launch a new raid on N�djamena.

Contrary to the February attack when their units had suffered much shelling by the army helicopters, the rebel troops of General Nouri seem to have new anti-aircraft batteries; military sources told APA under anonymity.

No sign of panic was notice on Friday in N�djamena, but the inhabitants, who were very much affected by the 2 and 3 February battles were keenly following the situation, APA noted.

In Abeche, about 900km north-east of the capital, the United Nations staff as well as the humanitarian agents were gathered at given places around the airport for their evacuation to the capital, UN sources revealed.

Inhabitants of the city, located at less than 200km from the incursion zone, live in fear of an attack, they told APA Friday by telephone.

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